Office furniture, fitness combined utilities

ABSTRACT

A kit of office furniture fitness combined utilities for systematic and periodic working operators&#39; posture changing with and by static body-spirit exercises, comprises ergonomic devices:
         A mobile torso-shield assembly connected to the operators desk,   Two shin-rest supports, and cross-hinged sit, all connected to the operators chair.       

     Said units are easily controlled means providing multiple and various body isometric fitness-positions to the operators entire body during working time. 
     Posture changings with various chest-supports, spine relief, entire body isometric fitness exercising while operating, help office workers to improve their shape, physical and mental health, mood, spirit, and raise working output. 
     Said utilities are designed as built-in-parts of modified furniture, and/or as additional kits of separate units to existing tables, desks and chairs. 
     Any kit of said devices becomes an actual combined set of fitness-stands positively and effectively contributing to operators health, spirit, and work.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

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FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH

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SEQUENCE LISTING OR PROGRAM

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This proposal represents a kit of devices providing fitness ergonomic utilities for people operating with usage of office furniture. The proposal relates to office tables, desks, chairs utilities contributing to health protection and self fitness for operators at their working places, during their working time, while performing their office duties. The proposal also relates to and deals with isometric body postures, static natural fitness exercises, ergonomic requirements to office furniture. The present proposal uses various cultures of human health, especially, posture - changing in all-day operations with limited body motions.

The physical and mental states of a all-day working office operators require some effective periodic and systemic body-spirit exercises. The best of them are those which could be provided while operating work duties. Our proposal offers a developed kit of devices connected to the modified or already existing regular office furniture,and allows the operator to be in good physical and mental shape all the working day long, and all the time in general. The devices proposed actually convert the office working time into a fitness gaining time simultaneously with good positive effects to operators health, spirit, general state, and operators work.

The subject matter of the present proposal comprises:

-   -   a combined adjustable device with mobile, easily controlled,         turning slewing up and down torso-shield which is a direct         chest-support and simultaneously is an actual indirect spine         relief and a major posture changer for the entire operators         torso including shoulders and arms; said torso shield is         connected to the office desk or table;     -   combined and adjustable chair devices with two, left and right         shin rest—supporters, and a cross-hinged working chair.

Said structures provide various and multiple operators body isometric positions for periodic and systemic posture changing according operators self feeling and ergonomic requirements thus exercising the entire body with most groups of muscles and supporting own shape, mood, spirit, and general fitness during operating time.

Many of conventional and new solutions related to office tables, desks, and chairs are described in classes 108, 297, D06 of the USA patent classification.

Said regular solutions, being traditional improvements, don't help office operators to avoid:

a) Some stagnation elements in body circulation systems,

b) Disbalancing negative effects of all-day sedentary office work,

c) Physical and emotional discomfort affecting direct work duties.

Any direct prior arts, which propose combined usage of office tables, desks, chairs for various operators' self healing posture changing and fitness obtaining during work operations and including needed devices for said ergonomic health caring purposes, were not found.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The objects, general solutions, and substance of this proposal are:

a. Improving the physical and mental fitness of the office operators by providing better ergonomic conditions for their few moving bodies during their work with wide opportunities of isometric, natural, and personal exercises which are allotted by operators furniture additional devices and utilities;

b. Providing fitness-devices as important parts of office furniture including the most used units like tables, desks, chairs;

c. To counteract the;,- negative effects that fixed positions and sedentary office work have on operators bodies, spirit and health;

d. Developing easily controlled and comfortable devices for natural, systemic, and periodic changing operators working postures in accordance to body hygiene requirements and mental state;

e. Developing said devices primarily for operator's chest, arms, shoulders, spine relief, legs, feet with maximum positive exercising effects on operators entire body mood and spirit, work climate in general,

f. Improving operators internal circulations, mental alertness, reducing muscle tensions;

g. Making operators work easier, more productive, and feeling better.

The present proposal offers:

-   -   A combined table shield-device for direct operators torso         supporting and indirect effective spine relief;     -   A combined chair-structure including left and right shin         supporters for bowed legs and a cross-hinged sit for spine         posture side-bending-changings in any direction.

All said utilities are developed and provided by devices which can be built-in with furniture units and/or separated as additional subunits to the already existing, prior produced furniture.

All said devices, as important auxiliaries to the office tables, desks, chairs, provide wide opportunities especially for PC-operators allowing them to keep their fitness, shape, mood, spirit and health with ergonomic, natural, isometric body-posture-changing exercises during the work in body-comfort personal manner.

The physical and mental shape of any office operator is keeping by possibilities of natural, easy fulfilled static postures-exercises, which are periodically changing. The regular office work becomes more effective because of simultaneous high comfortable and such needed calm isometric fitness-exercises for entire operators body, spirit, and health in general.

The office furniture with utilities proposed becomes a kit of effective fitness-stands in the most important for operators health working conditions, bringing real contributions to the operators shape, spirit, mood and work.

DRAWING FIGURES

The drawings are schematic, scaleless, and simplified for better clarity of solutions developed. In the drawings closely related units and elements have the same number but different alphabetic suffixes. Numbers of views and sections correspond to the numbers of figures where shown.

FIG. 1 shows a side view of utilities in connections to the office work station with an exemplary operators posture changing.

FIG. 2 is a front view-section taken in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a plan view-section taken in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 shows a cross-section taken in FIG. 2.

FIG. 5 is a side view-section of the torso shield-assembly taken in FIG. 2.

FIG. 6 is a front view taken in FIG. 5, yet with helical fixers-stoppers.

FIG. 7 shows a partial section taken in FIG.5 and turned to its horizontal position.

FIG. 8 is a partial cross-section taken from FIG. 7.

FIG. 9 is a partial cross-section taken from FIG. 2.

FIG. 10 is a partial plan-view taken from FIG. 6.

FIG. 11 is another front view taken in FIG. 5 for pushed-in torso-shield shown by dashed arrow 11, and pull-slide built-in key-board of PC.

REFERENCE NUMERALS AND SYMBOLS IN DRAWINGS

The original units and parts:

-   20A—torso-shield assembly, -   20B—basic support, -   20C—central flap, -   20F—side flap, -   20H—handle, -   20P—pocket cone bush, -   20R—doublecone insert, -   20S—stop-pin, -   20W—hand wheel, -   20V—stopper, -   21A—beam assembly, -   21B—slot-beam, -   21N—nut-slipper, -   21P—plug screw-cone, -   21S—slot-stop, -   21W—plug hand wheel; -   22—beam pocket, -   23—beam spacer, -   24—helical gear mini-box, -   25—flap pivot, -   25P—flap pin; -   30—chair sit cross-hinge, -   31—turnbuckle, -   32—pin, -   33—lock-nut, 34—wheel-handle, -   40L—left shin rest support, -   40R—right shin rest-support, -   41—shin base, -   42—double rib, -   43—turn buckle-fastener, -   44—screw fastener, -   45A—upper pin support, -   45B—lower pin-support, -   46—hinge pivot, -   47—combined chair pillar; -   47R—pilar rib,

Conventional units, parts, infrastructure:

-   50—office desk table; -   51—PC-monitor, -   52—table key-board; -   53—pull-slide keyboard, -   54—rolling-post chair, -   55—cutter, -   56—chair sit, -   57—pad parts.

Symbols:

—shield angle;

—flap angle;

—sit cross-angles;

—shin support angle;

—square connection;

—attachers;

—unshown but possible position;

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

This proposal represents a combined kit of devices-utilities to office tables, desks, and chairs. Said kit is developed for fitness isometric posture changings with static ergonomic exercises to the office operators during the working time.

Any combined kit consists of:

-   -   a torso-shield assembly which is simultaneously a direct         chest-shoulder support and an indirect spine-relief; the         torso-shield is connected to operators desk;     -   two shin-rest supports and cross-hinge sit, both connected to         operators chair for posture changings to the spine and legs with         all joints.

FIG. 1 illustrates how said utilities operate together at office work station. The torso-shield assembly 20A, beam assembly 21A, left and right shin rest-supports 40L, 40R, chair sit cross-hinge 30, combined chair pillar 47, office desk 50, PC-monitor 51, table key-board 52, rolling-post chair 54, are shown around an examplary operators posture changing. Angle

of basic support 20B can be changed by operator periodically with needed adjusting. Also are shown ## 43, 21W, 55, 20W.

FIG. 2 shows all said utilities in following positions: a) the basic support 20B of the torso-shield assembly 20A is in extended and turned-up state—according FIG. 1; b) the right shin rest-support 40R is in upper position; c) the left shin rest-support 40L and the chair sit cross-hinge 30 are shown in neutral positions. Also are shown ##: 20H, 20C, 20H, 20W, 50, 21W, 45B, 21A, 56, 30, 31, 33, 34, 47, 43, 40L, 54, 55, angle

.

FIG. 3 illustrates devices of FIGS. 1, 2 in plan view—arrangements. The table desk 50 is shown in transparent embodiment.

FIG. 4 shows the turnbuckle-fastener 43. Are shown ##: 40R, 56, 46, 41, 44, 33, 47R, 45.

FIG. 5 illustrates the basic support 20B in extended turned-up and slewing-down neutral positions, the central flap 20C is in neutral and extended states. Also are shown ##: 21A, 50, 23, 20H, 21B, 22, angle

of central flap positions.

FIG. 6. shows extended positions of side flaps 20F and possible another equal embodiment of torso-shield assembly 20A with helical gear-mini-boxes 24 as another embodiment for regulating stoppers instead shown earlier plug hand wheel 21W. Also are shown ##: 20C, 51, 50, 23, 22, 33, 21A.

FIGS. 7, 8 illustrate how said elements 20B, 20P, 20R, 21P, 21N, 21B, 21W, 22, 20H, 21S interact. Also are shown ##: 50, 23, slot and double-cone-screw units.

FIG. 9 shows operating pivot 25 of the central flap 20C. Are shown ##: 20W, 20S, 20B, cone-screw interaction.

FIG. 10 shows right side flap 20F in extended and turned-in states. Are shown ##: 20C, 20H, 46, 20V.

FIG. 11 illustrates a preferred embodiment of torso-shield assembly 20A in drawn-in state with a pull-out keyboard tray 53. Are shown ##: 50, 23, 24, 33, 21A.

Operation

Said kit of fitness utilities provides wide opportunities of periodic and systemic various posture changings during working hours, at working place according operators personal requirements, needs, body states. Said devices are developed for combined and independent operating in common and separated orders.

Varieties of multiple posture changings are provided by following factors:

a) slots of beams 21B, nut-slippers 21N, plug screw-cones 21P, stoppers 21W, 24 provide any angles

,

, and any comfortable position of torso-shield assembly 20A.

b) central and side flaps 20C, 20F provide additional postures to the bended ahead torso; stoppers 20S, 20V reliably contribute to any needed position of said flaps; additional torso-bendings in any side and any angle are provided with needed supports to the operators chest, both arms and shoulders.

c) Turnbuckle 31 provides needed angles

to cross-hinge 30 for the sit 36.

d) Turnbuckles 43 provide needed angles to shin-supports 40L, 40R for comfortable positions of bended operators legs, any smooth exercises for all joints, including knees and feet.

Any additional details of operation are clear from the drawings of FIGS. 1 to 11. Adjusting any of said devices, the office operator personally decides about the order of postures and combines them according personal fitness requirements.

The utilities of the present proposal are developed in order to make the operation of devices easy and obvious for any person. 

1. A kit of office furniture, fitness combined utilities for systematic and periodic posture-changings of working operators, comprise: A torso-shield assembly, connected to the operators desk, for chest support and spine relief; Two shin rest-supports and a cross-hinge sit-unit, all connected to the operators chair for entire operators body isometric exercising
 2. The utilities of claim 1, wherein said torso-shield assembly is mobile and includes: a) an extending and drawing-up and turning-slewing up and down, adjustable and reliably stoppable, chest-base with its two slot-beams, two clamp-catches, b) central flap, and two side flaps for operators personal adjusting.
 3. Any of the clamp-catches of claim 2 comprise, as a preferred embodiment, a cone hub, a double-cone insert, a cone-screw lock, a slot-slipper, hand wheel, a nut-slipper.
 4. Any of the clamp-catches of claim 2 can have another embodiment including, for example, a mini helical gear-box with wheel-handles controlled by operator.
 5. The central flap and both side-flaps of claim 2 preferably include screw-cone catches and fasteners respectively, for adjusting in operations.
 6. The utilities of claim 1, wherein any of said shin rest-supports preferably includes a shin-base, ribs, pins, and a turnbuckle spring-stop-fastener for flexible operation and adjusting.
 7. The utilities of claim 1, wherein said cross hinge sit-unit includes: A horizontal hinge with axis about perpendicular to the front edge of the operators desk, A turnbuckle with a lock-nut for ease control-adjusting in stable positions.
 8. The utilities of claim 1 are padded to appropriate surfaces for better operators comfort.
 9. The kit of utilities of claim 1 can include devices built-in to modified furniture, and/or consist of separate units to most of already existing conventional office furniture.
 10. The utilities of claim 1 can be used all together as a combined kit of said devices and separately as independent units to office tables, desks, chairs. 